Mode of making and stretching the sacking op bedsteads



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

WILLIAM S. ANDERSON, 0E SHELBYVILLE, TENNESSEE.

MODE 0F MAKING AND STRETCHING THE SACKING- 0F BEDSTEADS.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 765, dated June 4, 1838.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. ANDER- soN, ofShelbyville, in the county of Bedford and State of Tennessee, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Common Bedsteads; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full and eXact de-l scription.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isthe sacking, made fastened and stretched substantially as hereafterdescribed in combination with the stretcher as heretofore described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe it. The bed posts and rails do not differ from thecommon bedstead, eX- cept that the rails are round. The sacking consistsof two separate pieces of the same size and shape (represented in theaccompanying drawing by the letters A and B.) These twopieces of sackingare cased on the side and end so as to slip on the side and end rail;they are not to reach to the head rail by 10 inches, and are not to meetin the middle by 6 or 8 inches. Near the inner edge of each piece ofsacking there are eyelet holes for the cord to pass through. Through thecenter and middle of the head rail, from the outside passes a screw,(represented in the drawing by the letter C). Parallel to the head railon the inside, and nearly of the same length and size of it is what Icall the stretcher (represented by the letter D), which is alsoperforated by the screw. The stretcher in the middle is about the sizeof the head rail and tapers olf toward each end. The cord is firstinserted in the lowest eyelet holes next to the foot; one end of thecord in one eyelet hole and the other end in the opposite hole, sothatthe middle of the cord will lie between the two lowest eyelet holes;the ends of the cord are then passed through the other eyelet holescrossing from side to side, as represented in the drawing, until theyare passed through them all, 4and they are then passed through holes inthe stretcher and there fastened to it. There may either be a singlecord as above described, or two, as exhibited by the accompanyingdrawing. The outside and lower end of the sacking are supported bypassing around the rails, and the middle by the cord just described; butto support the upper end, other eyelet holes are made in it, and cordsdrawn through those eyelet holes, are fastened to the stretcher (asrepresented in the drawing by the letters E, E.) To tighten the sacking,the screw must be turned, which operating upon the stretcher andthatupon the cords, does in a moment what it now requires considerabletime and labor to perform.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-'The sacking, made, fastened and stretched substantially as hereindescribed in combination with the stretcher as herein described.

WILLIAM S. ANDERSON. Witnesses:

E. J. FRIERsoN, M. A. LONG.

